Portland Railway Light & Power 1067

Today we've got an update on Portland Railway Light & Power 1067 courtesy of Nick Christiansen, who is working on that car. PRL&P 1067 is a wooden interurban coach built in the company shops in 1906. It's a very historic car because it's the only surviving PRL&P interurban passenger car - and PRL&P isn't just another interurban, it has its origins in one of the very first "true" interurban lines built anywhere in the U.S., the line to Oregon City constructed in 1893.

Car 1067, shown in the two c1910 photos above (all photos copyright Nick Christiansen), is a pretty standard full-sized interurban car of a design typical of the Portland system. It ran until 1945 (later photo here), I believe, at which point it was turned into a cabin in Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Above is a photo taken in 1980 of car 1067 and sister car 1065. The former was saved and moved to the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society site while the latter, which had been sitting on the ground was in much worse condition, was disassembled for parts.

In recent years car 1067 has been sitting on trucks in the OERHS barn but its stripped condition precluded much serious restoration work. Nick reports that this, however, has changed. The parts retrieved from Portland Traction 1058 have been allocated to help restore PRL&P 1067. This includes correct-type Brill 27E trucks, GE Type M control equipment, AMM schedule brakes, and other parts. The photos above show the current state of car 1067, with its east side in primer and its west side currently stripped and awaiting new windows. The car's interior is pretty well stripped, as is typically the case with cars saved as bodies.

And here's some what what will be going back on to car 1067. At top, an entire set of new windows has been fabricated for the car; then there's a smattering of components salvaged from PTCo 1058; and at bottom is a C6K controller that will go to car 1067. The PRL&P car's record has been updated in the PNAERC database to reflect the equipment assigned to it and the fact that it is undergoing restoration work. Many thanks to Nick for this update, and I look forward to hearing more about this project as it moves forward.